public works and 30
Bird bring together architecture, performance and
science under the same roof. Home in the Service of
Science is inspired by a year of conversations with
scientists, cleaners, technicians, receptionists, security guards
and the catering staff at the Laboratory of Molecular
Biology (LMB) revealing scientific research and
dialogue with LMB's everyday life. The residency centres
around a structure made up of a bathroom, the space under the
stairs, the parlour, the corridor and the study, sitting in the
atrium at the LMB building and a series of dining room situation
hostings. In an overwhelming context where we mainly build
houses, the question of what the home is and what its role becomes
is one to raise. As part of this Years Cambridge festival of
ideas, Home in the Service of Science starts to raise
such questions while thousands new homes are being built around the
MRC building.

4 catered Hostings debating architectural ideas of home in the
service of science and the quest for knowledge, were held with
staff from the LMB and selected members of the public:

The Kitchen - in the service of scienceThe Parlour - in the service of scienceThe Corridor - in the service of scienceThe Bathroom - in the service of science

public works and 30 Bird worked with the LMB
staff to develop an interdisciplinary performance by visualizing
and animating the weird and wonderful content produced during the
residency such as mobile Ecoli factory in form of a toilet, worm
tamer crown, an experiment in piano composition, and a fridge that
breeds antibodies. All creating a jarring relationship between
scientific experimentation and domestic living. The performance
opened to the public as part of the Cambridge Festival of Ideas
28,29,30th October 2017.